The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics program presents
A Montgomery Lecture
with
Cecilio M. Cooper, MA
Doctoral Candidate, Department of African American Studies
Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Instructor and Graduate Affiliate
Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The Miracle of the Black Leg: On Blackness, Amputation, and Medical Knowledge
A Roman dreamt that Cosmas and Damian amputated an Ethiopian’s healthy limb so that it could be transplanted onto his own ailing body. So states the "Miracle of the Black Leg." It is among the legendary healings linked to the pair’s canonization as patron saints of medicine. This talk explores what this medical miracle reveals about how blackness figures as a means for knowledge production in science and medicine.
Bryan Morrison
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